I Will Never Support A Draft

According to this Washington Whispers article, reinstating the draft has another supporter in the form of Republican James Baker, who believes that "when you have a draft, then everybody's got a stake in it." This is true; everyone does have a stake in it, because everyone (that is, everyone who is male and within a certain age range) spends their lives wondering if they're the next one who has to go off and die in a war they may not even agree with. Another thing they have a stake in is making sure the people responsible for the draft itself are never again elected to national office.

I greatly admire and respect our men and women overseas, but I will never, ever, support a draft. I love my country, but I refuse to allow someone to tell me to die for it.

This is actually sort of a moot point: right now, there are only two people in Congress who openly support a draft, and they are two people who are basically completely uknown and have virtually no say in anything. But the fervor with which I discourage a reinstatement of the draft remains: I absolutely refuse to allow it to happen.

God Bless America, and the freedoms it gives me. Please allow me to keep those freedoms.

-A^LASKA